What a great project to give the Triangle Fire victims a proper memorial. The memorial would include several long steel panels running along the building’s facade. One horizontal panel would.
You may not be surprised that the combination of non-union worksites and a weak regulatory enforcement structure kills construction workers: Most construction sites where workers died failed to take basic.
In the Progressive Era, the photographs of Lewis Hine brought the horrible conditions of child laborers in the United States into the sight of the middle class, helping to bring.
Jake Blumgart has an interesting piece on how Seattle has created its own labor office with more inspectors per capita than the Department of Labor or the state of Washington..
On November 30, 1932, the American Federation of Labor endorsed federal unemployment insurance. This was a remarkable shift for the AFL, which had long opposed any sort of government programs.
Above: Slaves in the Thai fishing industry Nestlé, long one of the world's most evil corporations, has finally admitted that much of its fish is procured through slave labor. Migrant.
On November 26, 1910, a factory building in Newark, New Jersey caught on fire, killing 25 textile workers. This should have been a call to arms for workplace safety reform,.
U.S. Steel decided they couldn't wait until after Thanksgiving to lay off 2000 workers at its Granite City, Illinois facility. What a lovely holiday those unemployed workers will have. At.
